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Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient

A 61-year-old woman presented to the emergency ward complaining of low back pain for a month. She had undergone several spinal surgeries and a right radical nephrectomy 30 years before. A few days earlier she was injected with an intramuscular painkiller in her right buttock. An abdominal CT scan re...

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Autores principales: Ropero-Luis, Guillermo, López-Núñez, Marina, Hidalgo-López, Clara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35509760
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23766
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author Ropero-Luis, Guillermo
López-Núñez, Marina
Hidalgo-López, Clara
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Hidalgo-López, Clara
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description A 61-year-old woman presented to the emergency ward complaining of low back pain for a month. She had undergone several spinal surgeries and a right radical nephrectomy 30 years before. A few days earlier she was injected with an intramuscular painkiller in her right buttock. An abdominal CT scan revealed multiple abscesses in the psoas muscle and the right posterior abdominal wall, including cellulitis in the adjacent subcutaneous tissue and the injection site. A diagnosis of pyomyositis from subcutaneous dissemination was made, and intravenous cefazolin was initiated. After five days of favorable progress, treatment was switched to oral cefadroxil to complete four weeks, leading to full recovery.
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spelling pubmed-90608362022-05-03 Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient Ropero-Luis, Guillermo López-Núñez, Marina Hidalgo-López, Clara Cureus Internal Medicine A 61-year-old woman presented to the emergency ward complaining of low back pain for a month. She had undergone several spinal surgeries and a right radical nephrectomy 30 years before. A few days earlier she was injected with an intramuscular painkiller in her right buttock. An abdominal CT scan revealed multiple abscesses in the psoas muscle and the right posterior abdominal wall, including cellulitis in the adjacent subcutaneous tissue and the injection site. A diagnosis of pyomyositis from subcutaneous dissemination was made, and intravenous cefazolin was initiated. After five days of favorable progress, treatment was switched to oral cefadroxil to complete four weeks, leading to full recovery. Cureus 2022-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9060836/ /pubmed/35509760 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23766 Text en Copyright © 2022, Ropero-Luis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Ropero-Luis, Guillermo
López-Núñez, Marina
Hidalgo-López, Clara
Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient
title Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_fullStr Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full_unstemmed Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_short Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort multifocal abdominal pyomyositis from subcutaneous dissemination in an immunocompetent patient
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35509760
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23766
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